Traders and Raiders

The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859

Natale A. Zappia

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781469629933, 9781469615844
• eBook ISBN: 9781469615851
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century. But as Natale A. Zappia argues in this expansive study, the Colorado River basin must be understood first as home to a complex Indigenous world. Through 300 years of western colonial settlement, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans all encountered vast Indigenous borderlands peopled by Mojaves, Quechans, Southern Paiutes, Utes, Yokuts, and others, bound together by political, economic, and social networks. Examining a vast cultural geography including southern California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Sonora, Baja California, and New Mexico, Zappia shows how this interior world pulsated throughout the centuries before and after Spanish contact, solidifying to create an autonomous, interethnic Indigenous space that expanded and adapted to an ever-encroaching global market economy.

Situating the Colorado River basin firmly within our understanding of Indian country, Traders and Raiders investigates the borders and borderlands created during this period, connecting the coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific worlds with a vast Indigenous continent.

Appendix 1: Tables

The tables in this book represent wide-ranging sources and reflect both quantitative and qualitative data. I have categorized relevant sources by table and included a rationale for the methodology where necessary.

TABLE A1: Olivella (Shell Bead) Taxonomy by Cultural Group

TABLE A2: Sample of Major Commodities of the Interior World (Including Selected Locations)

TABLE A3: Selected California Basket Types

TABLE A4: Number of Documented Major Epidemics Affecting the Interior World, 1520–1860

TABLE A5: Number of Documented Victims of Forced Bondage by Group, 1700–1860

TABLE A6: Major Indian Uprisings Relevant to This Study, 1650–1851

TABLE A7: Livestock Populations, Alta/Baja California and Sonora, 1740–1840

TABLE A8: Selected Indian Horse and Cattle Raiding, Alta California, 1816–1856

TABLE A9: Selected American Forts Established within the Interior World, 1849–1859

Appendix 2: List of Missions Relevant to the Interior World

Sonora

San Xavier del Bac

San Agustín de Tucson

Tumacacori

Tubutama

Cocospera

Caborca

Oquitoa

San Ignacio

Baja California

El Descanso

Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Norte

San Miguel Arcángel de la Frontera

Santa Catarina Virgen y Mártir

Santo Tomás

Alta California

La Purísima Concepción

San Diego

San Gabriel

San Pedro y San Pablo De Bicuner

San Juan Capistrano

San Luis Rey

Santa Barbara

Santa Ynez

Appendix 3: Tribal Names

Appendix 4: Population Figures of Selected Native Communi...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Traders and Raiders
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Naming People, Geography, and Time Periods
• Introduction
• Interlude: The Journey of Pook
• Interlude: The View from Huwaaly Kwasakyav
• Interlude: Pascual’s Warning
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1: Tables
• Appendix 2: List of Missions Relevant to the Interior World
• Appendix 3: Tribal Names
• Appendix 4: Population Figures of Selected Native Communities
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index